After playing with Chaos for a while yesterday, Don and I set out to removing some of the art supplies that I've somehow managed to bring into the house over the course of time. It begins with me desiring to do a bit of research into something or desiring to create something yet have the TV on at the same time. So therefore, I trek out to the studio, grabbing the desired items, and heading back into the house, LOL! Well, yesterday, we made a huge dent in the supplies stored here and got them moved back into the studio; I still have a few things that need to go out yet but nothing like before. I did manage to actually get some of the supplies in the studio put away even! A major accomplishment in and of itself, LOL!
After eating a bowl of my homemade veggie soup for lunch, grabbing a short nap, we set out for the day with no particular destination in mind; just a getaway to enjoy the beautiful weather. We headed out St. Rt. 23 S to Columbus trying to decide where we'd like to have dinner at later in the day. Not desiring to be inside, I suggested having dinner at A Bag of Nails in Worthington. Upon arriving, we sat at an curbside patio drinking ice tea and lemonade while waiting for our meal. I just love this place, it is small, and very quaint. Add in the fact that menu itself is a piece of art any vintage lover would enjoy and outside patio seating and I'm in heaven. The menu features black and white and sepia pictures of the original owner's family with a storyline throughout regarding the dishes that they serve. One of our favorites is the fish sandwich platter which is huge! Don and I share one along with a house salad; trust me, that is plenty enough to eat! Our salads arrived shortly after our drinks and we sat and ate the cold, crisp lettuce, sprinkled with carrots, tomatoes, bacon, and crumbled blue cheese while doing a bit of chatting and people watching. Shortly thereafter our meal arrives; deep-fried fish with a side of tartar sauce, lettuce, tomato, and purple onion sliced thin on a kiaser bun -- pure bliss!
Having satisfied our hunger cravings, we travel on down the road.
Approximately, 15-20 minutes later, we decide to stop and leisurely walk off some of our dinner in Clintonville's Whetstone Park of Roses. It is a beautiful 13 acre park and the roses were absolutely gorgeous. The various gardens are truly a treasure with pathways engraved with memory etched stones scattered along the way. The garden was in just past the peak of being in full bloom and offered a multitude of colors, styles of roses, and fragrances. Its splendor exceeds many parks we've visited. The park offers a variety of things to do, a place to walk your dogs, people watch, allow children to play, enjoy a small pond, musical entertainment and picnic style dining under a majestic canopy of Maple and Oak trees. Anyways, we head into the main section of the park where the rose gardens themselves are located, meanderly strolling along the paved pathways past the Perrineal Gardens, a Herb Garden, and make our way to the fountain where we sat enjoying the sunshine and the moist wet breeze of spray from the fountain itself. After another leisurely stroll under the trumpet vine covered arbor we made our way back to the truck. Desiring not to let the excellent weather go to waste, we decide to travel on down St. Rt. 23 S.
Just south of the Columbus corporation limit sign, I spotted another sign for Slate Run Metro Park. Neither Don or I have been there so we follow the signs on a narrow country road, driving past golden field of hay just in its peak, the beauty of it is spectacular! Shortly after 7 p.m., we arrive at the first Slate Run Wetlands Wildlife Refuge of the park just off of Winchester Road. We walked a section of the Kokomo Wetland trial, probably a half mile, out to the actual wetland. There was a wood deck built there that goes right out over one of the the cattail marshes, where we did a bit of bird watching. We only seen a few eastern meadowlarks and sparrows there.
Next, we headed south further until arriving at Marcy Road, making our way to the main park entrance. We tried to visit the Slate Run Living Historical Farm and Farmhouse which provides the opportunity to see the routines of daily life of the 1880's being carried out. Unfortunately, this area of the park closes at 6 p.m. so we missed it. Deciding we'd really like to see it and spend more time in the wildlife areas, we promised each other that we'd one day return when the farm and farmhouse are open bringing with us food to cookout and have a picnic.
From there we continued on into the park, making our way to the Buzzard's Roost Picnic area and playgrounds where we followed a paved trail out to Buzzard's Roost Lake's deck and boardwalk. We watched a doe come out of the woods to the water's edge of the 14 acre lake for a cool evening drink through a telescope and saw a green huron, a ring-necked duck and some wood ducks sunning themselves on rocks located within the wetland lake. The area is surrounded by open marshes and woods filled with beech, sugar maple, oak and hickory trees which offers a wonderful area in which to spend the day birdwatching as there over 70 species of wetland dependant birds and over 200 migratory birds --- Everything from herons, to ducks, owls, and others. I was a bit remorseful that I'd not grabbed my digital camera to capture some of the flowers, fauna, insects and birds. As soon as we return, I promise I'll post some.
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